Mister Sandman (aka Pierre Laplace of folk duo The Sandman’s Orchestra) has released “Broken Radio”, a sample library for Kontakt 4 and 5, based on samples of radio reception, interference, tuning, static and noise. Sources used: high-quality recordings of a vintage radio receiver as well as the online radio receiver of the university of Twente in the Netherlands. 

Each sound was meticulously edited and processed to create unique sounding instruments, atmospheres and drones.

All sounds used in this demo are from the sample library without any other instruments or processing, except for a touch of reverb.

Broken radio is available here : http://sampleism.com/mistersandman/brokenradio

Features :

-  41 sounds / instruments (.nki patches for full version of Kontakt 4.2 and higher): 10 drones, 20 atmospheres, one drum kit, 3 basses, one organ, one flute, one theremin, 4 fx
-  24 bit, 48 000 hz


Sampleism - Broken Radio demo (sample library for Kontakt)

-Boston Area storytelling.  Remember you are only a true artist if you recognize the genius in somebody's else's work. Keep your ears open there is genius all around us.

Contact us : sandmansorchestra(at)gmail.com

THE SANDMAN’S ORCHESTRA is a duo made up of Pierre Laplace, a singer/songwriter from Lille, France, and his young niece, Léonie Gabriel.

The story of the duo started in May 2010 when, after a family lunch, 15-year-old Léonie picked up a guitar and started singing a few covers. Everybody was astounded by the beauty of her voice, and her uncle Pierre Laplace immediately proposed that they work on some songs together. 

Pierre was the singer in cult French band Vera Clouzot, who from 1994 to 2004 released 4 albums, played numerous concerts including support slots with Jeff Buckley and Smog, and appeared on the American Music Club tribute album « Come On Beautfiul » alongside Lambchop, Calexico and Matt Ward.

Before finding out that his niece had a voice beyond her years, Pierre had been setting up a home-studio and learning a number of new instruments. The timing was right to start a new musical journey. 

Since they started working together the duo have developed a warm, atmospheric folk sound with touches of minimal dark jazz and electronica. The combination of male and female vocals and the blend of acoustic instruments (guitar, banjo, wurlitzer, piano, cello, drums) define the duo’s sound.

The duo released their 1st album « Silver Linings » in June 2011 ; « Nocturne », their new 10-track LP was released worldwide (CD and download) on March 25th 2013 through Bandcamp, CDbaby, Itunes and Amazon.

"Crying For The Moon", the duo's 3rd album, was released in November 2014

Listen to 2 fantastic remixes of our song "Hello Stranger" by Collecting Pool and Indigolab :
http://soundcloud.com/collecting-pool/hello-stranger-sandmans
http://soundcloud.com/indigolab/the-sandmans-orchestra-hello

Sampleism - Broken Radio demo (sample library for Kontakt)

The Sandman's Orchestra